Henry Kissinger looks at Germany's new coalition government and sees trouble:
Both coalition parties know that if they frustrate each other, the coalition will break up and each will face the dilemmas that obliged them to form it in the first place. When the departing chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, attempted marginal reforms, it threatened to split the Social Democratic Party. When Merkel offered a far-reaching, market-oriented alternative, it divided the electorate almost evenly -- indeed, with a slight majority for the left if one includes former communists. Thus a deadlock might make the dominant parties irrelevant by producing a major electoral shift to minor parties or to new ones at the extremes of the political spectrum.
Oh, joy - maybe it'll be these guys.
Yeah, it looks as if the crazies are on the march, again, in EUnuchstan.
At least this time they're too weak to threaten other countries.
Unless Russia decides to 'help'.
I prefer my Germans thoroughly vanqiushed and divided. Churchill hit it on the head by describing Germans as either "at your throat or at your feet."
If the parties split apart, maybe they'll agree that it's time to march on Paris, again.
Germany’s Green Party has persuaded a substantial number of Deutschesvolk to their point of view, and managed to get one of their number elevated to the post of Foreign Minister. It’s unlikely such voters will forget that it was FRANCE that bombed the Greenpeace ship lying at dock a few years back, drowning two of its crew and preventing the ship from interfering with a French nuclear weapon test in Pacific waters near Tahiti. Germans simultaneously protest nuclear power, disposal or storage of hazardous nuclear waste AND the pollution occasioned by coal burning, currently [sorry] the only viable aternative fuel. But all the while they quietly purchase surplus electrical power from FRANCE, which generates only six percent of its power by coal, eighty percent by Nuclear fission.
I wonder if the Germans or French have ever translated the phrase “cognitive dissonance.”
David,
They don't have to translate it, they're living it.
